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Twelve vivid months, seen through the lenses of the world’s news photographers. It was a year of conflict, tragedy and natural disaster – leavened by extraordinary glimpses of optimism, seemingly superhuman endeavour, and odd moments of humour
Crowds celebrated the new year in Bucharest and Sofia as Romania and Bulgaria
officially became members of the European Union. The two countries, which
had applied to join as far back as 1995, became the EU’s 26th and 27th
member states
The United States carried out air strikes on targets in southern Somalia,
claiming it had intelligence indicating that senior Al-Qaeda members were
operating in the country. The attack was the first overt military action by
the US in Somalia since 1994
Comet McNaught, the brightest comet seen from Earth in over 40 years, was
visible during daylight hours in the skies over the southern hemisphere.
The comet was discovered by the British-Australian astronomer Robert H
McNaught only last year
American police officers discovered two kidnapped boys alive and well in an
apartment in suburban Kirkwood, Missouri. One of them was Shawn Hornbeck, a
15-year-old who had been missing for 41/2 years. A man was charged with
abduction
Two of Saddam Hussein’s top aides, including his 55-year-old half-brother,
Barzan al-Tikriti, were hanged in Baghdad having been convicted over the
killing of 148 Shi’ites during the 1980s. The hanging caused al-Tikriti to
be decapitated
Senator Hillary Clinton stated she would stand in the 2008 election for
president of the USA, to the delight of her supporters. If she succeeds she
will be the first woman – and the first spouse of a former president – to
take office in America
A detailed international report on climate change made bleak reading. Compiled
by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), it predicted that
world temperatures would probably rise by 1.8C to 4C before this century was
out
The Dixie Chicks won five Grammy awards at a ceremony in LA. The band had
previously been demonised by right-wing Americans after their lead singer,
Natalie Maines, criticised George W Bush at a concert in London before the
invasion of Iraq
At talks in Beijing, it was announced that North Korea had agreed to
permanently dismantle its nuclear programme and freeze its main reactor, in
return for a package of aid – including food and fuel – from the US, China,
Russia and South Korea
A midnight bomb exploded on a train from India to Pakistan – the Friendship
Express – causing a fire in which 60 people died. An Indian government
minister said the act was ‘an attempt to derail the improving relationship’
between the two countries
Romano Prodi resigned as prime minister of Italy after his government was
defeated in parliament over foreign policy. Opponents had halted plans to
keep Italian troops in Afghanistan and expand a US military base in
northeastern Italy
Titanic’s director, James Cameron, announced the subject of his controversial
new documentary. A tomb in suburban Jerusalem, he said, had housed ossuaries
(bone boxes) that may have held the remains of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and
their son, Judah. Critics scoffed
An American astronaut at the apex of a ‘space love triangle’ was fired by
Nasa. Lisa Nowak, 43, had allegedly driven 1,000 miles from Texas to
Florida, armed and in disguise, to confront her rival for the affections of
a pilot, William Oefelein
March 20
A survey revealed that 28% of Israeli Arabs did not believe that the Holocaust
really happened. The survey, by a sociologist at the University of Haifa,
found that the figure was even more alarming – 33% – among high-school and
college graduates
A controversial New York exhibition for Holy Week – entitled My Sweet Lord and
featuring an anatomically detailed 6ft nude sculpture of Jesus Christ made
out of 200lb of chocolate – was cancelled after a Catholic group, among
others, complained bitterly
More than 50 people were killed and thousands made homeless when a tsunami hit
the Solomon Islands, destroying over a dozen villages. The deadly waves were
triggered by an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, near the
island of Ghizo
A French TGV (train à grande vitesse) broke the world rail-speed record when
it topped 357mph. The test run for the V150, a modified version with two
engines and three double-decker cars, took place on track between Paris and
the eastern city of Strasbourg
April 6
A Greek cruise ship, the Sea Diamond, sank the day after it struck a volcanic
reef near the island of Santorini. More than 1,500 passengers were
evacuated, and the ship’s captain and other officers were later charged with
negligence
April 10
A ring of fire destroyed the former home of the late country star Johnny Cash.
The blaze at the lakeside house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where Cash had
lived for three decades, occurred during renovation work by its current
owner, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees
Thirty-two people were shot dead at Virginia Tech, and many others injured, in
the worst school shooting in US history. The murderer – Seung-Hui Cho, a
23-year-old student at the research university in Blacksburg, Virginia –
shot himself after the rampage
In the biggest bombing by insurgents in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, a car
bomb in the district of Sadriya in Baghdad killed at least 140 people and
injured scores more. Other explosions in Baghdad on the same day included a
suicide car bomb in Sadr City
Archbishop Angelo Amato, a Vatican official, declared that gay marriage was
evil. He criticised ‘so-called civilised nations’ for approving same-sex
marriages, and condemned abortion clinics, which he called ‘slaughterhouses
of human beings’
The legislative assembly of Mexico City voted 46 to 19 to legalise abortion in
the city – despite vehement protests by Catholics, and against the wishes of
Pope Benedict XVI himself, who had written to Mexican bishops urging them to
resist the measure
Nicolas Sarkozy, 52, won the French presidential election for the right,
beating his female rival, the socialist S�golène Royal. ‘Sarko’, the son of
a Hungarian immigrant, is the first French president born after the second
world war
An Israeli archeologist declared he had found the tomb of King Herod. Ehud
Netzer made the discovery in the appropriately named Herodium, south of
Jerusalem. The remains of the notorious biblical child-killer and king of
Judea were not found inside
Serbia won the Eurovision Song Contest at its first attempt, after becoming an
independent country last year. The singer was Marija Serifovic and the song
was Molitva (Prayer). The UK entry didn’t have a prayer: it tied a dismal
22nd out of 24 entries
Paul Wolfowitz, the 53-year-old former US deputy defence secretary, gave in to
mounting pressure to resign as president of the World Bank, after he was
censured for giving a tax-free $50,000-per-annum pay rise to his girlfriend,
Shaha Riza
Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japan’s agriculture minister, hanged himself after
being implicated in a cash-for-forestry-contracts scandal. Another man
associated with the scandal, the businessman Shinichi Yamakazi, 76, leapt to
his death the following day
Despite widespread protest, the makers of a ‘tasteless’ Dutch TV programme
went ahead with the broadcast. The Big Donor Show asked a terminally ill
woman to choose a contestant to receive her kidneys after her death. The
makers then admitted it was all a hoax
The Republic of Ireland elected its first black mayor. Rotimi Adebari, 43,
arrived from Nigeria as an asylum-seeker fleeing religious persecution in
2000. He was elected first citizen of Portlaoise, a commuter town near
Dublin, with all-party support
The disgraced White House aide Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was saved from going to
jail for 21/2 years when President Bush ruled the sentence ‘excessive’.
Libby had been found guilty of perjury in a case that involved revealing the
identity of a CIA officer
Live Earth rocked the world while beseeching us to save it. Crusading concerts
were held in cities on seven continents, from Sydney to London, from Rio to
Shanghai. More than 150 acts performed, Madonna, KT Tunstall and Crowded
House among them
Seven new ‘wonders of the world’ were named at a ceremony in Lisbon after
millions had voted for contenders on the internet. The winners included the
Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge, though shortlisted, failed to earn
‘wonder’ status
Osama Bin Laden appeared in a video on a militant Islamic website. In a clip
lasting less than a minute, wearing army fatigues, he praised those who die
in the name of jihad, saying that even the Prophet Muhammad ‘had been
wishing to be a martyr’
About 200 people died when an airliner burst into flames while landing at an
airport in Sao Paulo. The TAM Airbus A320 skidded on the wet runway, crossed
a busy road and ploughed into an airport building. It was Brazil’s worst
ever air disaster
A coach carrying Polish pilgrims plummeted from a bridge in the French Alps,
killing at least 26 people. The pilgrims had been visiting the shrine of
Notre Dame de la Salette, where in 1846 the Virgin Mary is said to have
appeared to two children
The 40-year-old I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed and fell into the
Mississippi during the evening rush hour, hurling about 50 vehicles and tons
of concrete into the river, killing 13 people and crushing a freight train
passing underneath
Nasa launched its Phoenix robotic spacecraft to the Martian North Pole.
Scheduled to land on Mars in May 2008, Phoenix has been designed to use a
robotic arm to dig into the terrain of the north polar region in a search
for microbial life
A new 328-metre bridge on the Tuojiang river in China’s Hunan province
collapsed as workers removed scaffolding; 64 people died. Poor workmanship
was blamed, and China has ordered the trials of 24 citizens suspected of
negligence
After skirting Jamaica’s south coast, Hurricane Dean moved on to batter the
Caribbean coast of Mexico, where it brought winds of 160mph and felled trees
and power lines on the Yucatan peninsula. The next day, it struck Veracruz
in eastern Mexico
The American adventurer Steve Fossett – the first person to fly solo round the
world nonstop in a balloon – disappeared in a single-engined aircraft over
the Nevada desert. He was scouting for locations for an attempt on the world
land-speed record
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq with the US secretary of state,
Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates. They visited
Anbar province, greeted US troops at an air base, and met the Iraqi prime
minister, Nouri al-Maliki
The Japanese prime minister, 52-year-old Shinzo Abe, resigned. The country’s
youngest post-second-world-war leader had been plagued by financial scandals
and low poll ratings. He was soon in hospital, suffering from stress and
exhaustion
September 15
A meteorite crashes to Earth near the town of Carancas in southern Peru,
creating a huge crater in the ground. Hundreds of people fell ill after
visiting the site; health officials blamed toxic fumes emanating from the
crater
In the anti-government protests in Burma, the Japanese photojournalist Kenji
Nagai was shot as security forces opened fire on protesters in Yangon’s city
centre; the 50-year-old continued taking pictures while lying injured in the
road, but later died
Al Gore shared the Nobel peace prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Gore and the IPCC were praised by the Nobel committee for
‘their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made
climate change’
The Turkish parliament voted to deploy troops in northern Iraq to tackle
Kurdish rebels responsible for a series of cross-border bomb attacks. But
President Bush and Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, called on
Turkey to show restraint
The Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger plane, completed its first
commercial flight.
The 73-metre-long double-decker, nicknamed ‘superjumbo’, flew from Singapore
to Sydney with 455 passengers on board. It has a capacity of 850
The Vatican finally published Trial Against the Templars, a 14th-century
manuscript revealing that the Knights Templar had been absolved of heresy by
the Catholic Church. But the church stopped short of an apology for
torturing and executing many knights
Argentina gained a woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the wife
of the outgoing president, Nestor Kirchner. Cristina, 54, is Argentina’s
second female president, after Eva Peron, but the first to be elected by the
people
Long live the King: the highest-earning dead celebrity of the year, said
Forbes magazine, was Elvis Presley, whose estate had generated $49m over the
past 12 months. Next came John Lennon and the cartoonist Charles Schulz
A devastating storm, Cyclone Sidr, struck the coast of Bangladesh, killing
thousands of people and destroying more than 270,000 homes. The cyclone also
wiped out thousands of acres of crops just before the harvest season
November 20
Researchers in Germany announced they had found the remains of the planet’s
largest-known arthropod. An 18in-long claw, found in a quarry, was from a
sea scorpion that could have been 8ft long and would have roamed the sea bed
390m years ago
November 20
Italian archeologists claimed to have discovered the legendary Lupercal, the
underground cave where, according to ancient Roman mythology, a she-wolf
suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god Mars, who co-founded
Rome in 753BC
Kevin Rudd became the new prime minister of Australia, in an election win that
scuttled 68-year-old John Howard’s hopes of winning a fifth term in office.
Rudd, the 50-year-old leader of the centre-left Labor party, vowed to work
‘for all Australians’
OJ Simpson was pleading ‘not guilty’ in court again, this time in a case that
involved armed robbery and the theft of sports memorabilia in September. The
former American football star is due to stand trial with two other men next
year
Zhang Zilin, 23, beat contestants from over 100 nations to become China’s
first Miss World. Crowned at the 57th Miss World event, held in the Chinese
resort of Sanya, she said she would ‘use the power and beauty of Miss World
to support those in need’
Jodie Foster ‘came out’ by publicly referring to her girlfriend for the first
time. Accepting an award at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast
in Los Angeles, the 45-year-old actress thanked ‘my beautiful Cydney’ – the
film producer Cydney Bernard
An Australian judge caused an outcry by letting nine young Aboriginal men walk
free after they admitted gang-raping a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl in
Queensland in 2005. She had ‘probably agreed to have sex’ with them, said
the judge, Sarah Bradley
Two bombs exploded in Algiers, killing dozens. One went off near the supreme
court, the other by the United Nations’ offices. The Algerian government
said two car bombs had been involved. Al-Qaeda’s North African wing claimed
responsibility
A choir sang Beethoven’s Ode to Joy in Lisbon as EU leaders signed a new
treaty to replace the European constitution. Gordon Brown missed the
ceremony and signed his name later – because of a clashing appointment with
a House of Commons committee
US researchers said they believed they had found the remains of a treasure
ship captured by Captain Kidd. They had identified a wreck off Catalina
Island in the Dominican Republic as the Quedah Merchant, seized by the
Scottish buccaneer in 1698
Russia announced that it had delivered the first shipment of nuclear fuel to a
reactor it is helping Iran to build in the southern port of Bushehr. Some
Western countries fear Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Tehran
insists its programme is peaceful
Fidel Castro, 81, Cuba’s leader since 1959, said in a letter read on TV that
he did not intend to cling to power for ever. He is in frail health and has
not been seen in public since having emergency surgery in 2006. His brother
Raul, 76, is acting president
Benazir Bhutto, 54, was assassinated after a PPP rally in Rawalpindi. The
former Pakistani prime minister's cavalcade had been struck by suicide
bombers in Karachi in October in am unsuccessful attack. She had returning
to Pakistan after eight years of exile in Dubai and London, and was
campaigning ahead of elections in January 2008
OBITUARIES
Farewell? to those twin staples of the wireless age Alan Coren and Ned
Sherrin, to Ian Smith — vindicated in death, he would argue, by the chaos of
Mugabe’s Zimbabwe — and Ingmar Bergman. Last orders, too, for Boris Yeltsin,
George Melly and that pugnacious beast of American letters, Norman Mailer.
John Inman became free at last from the shackles of Mr Humphries; Marcel
Marceau remained silent, this time in perpetuity. Jane Tomlinson lost her
courageous battle against cancer, along the way inspiring hundreds to fight
the disease with determination. Lives troubled in other ways came to an
unexpected end: celebrated It girl Isabella Blow and Playboy model Anna
Nicole Smith died within a few months of each other. Football “as it used to
be” was dealt a double blow with the passing of Alan Ball and Derek Dougan.
We have also lost Magnus Magnusson — and never again will we hear the
comforting tones of Professor Anthony Clare
STORIES OF THE YEAR
A selection of some of the original news stories from Times Online that
inspired the iconic pictures of the year - which appear in the print edition
of the Sunday Times Magazine
SILENT PROTEST
A demonstrator in a Guantanamo Bay-style jumpsuit kneels before riot police in
Bogota, Colombia, protesting against George W Bush’s visit in March
BOLD TURKEY
Muslim women, some wearing specially designed head-to-heel swimsuits, soak up
the sun alongside bikini-clad holiday-makers in Alanya, Turkey
WHEN IN ROME
A man, later described by the Vatican as ‘clearly deranged’, is caught by
bodyguards as he tries to jump onto Pope Benedict’s Jeep in St Peter’s
Square, Rome, in June
Being knocked out of the Rugby World Cup by England was a bitter blow for
France’s S�bastien Chabal, the tournament’s most talked-about player. He
returned empty-handed — to England, where he plays for Sale Sharks
TAKING FLIGHT
Passengers escape from a China Airlines Boeing 737-800 after it burst into
flames in Japan in August
THAI TRAGEDY
The remains of a One-Two-Go Airlines plane, which crashed on Phuket in
September, killing 90 people
COLLISION COURSE
Two aeroplanes from the Zelazny aerobatics team collide head-on at the Radom
air show in Warsaw in September. Both pilots died
UNMADE IN CHINA
Clouds of smoke and dust billow out from the collapsing Wulihe Stadium in
Shenyang, northeast China, in February. The controlled explosion brought the
18-year-old stadium — once regarded as a “lucky” arena for China’s national
football team — to the ground in little more than six seconds
Luciano Pavarotti’s coffin is placed in the hearse after his funeral at the
Duomo in Modena, Italy, in September. Thousands of people had gathered
outside the cathedral to say farewell to the tenor, who died at 71 after a
career that spanned five decades. He once said: “I think a life in music is
a life beautifully spent”
MURDER IN CONGO
Conservation rangers work with local people to evacuate the body of a
silverback gorilla from Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of
Congo. This male and three females were found shot dead in the park in July.
The reason for the killings is not certain. Some have speculated that they
were carried out by rebel militia operating in the area, others that they
were part of an ongoing clash between people running an illegal charcoal
industry in the park and rangers trying to protect the mountain gorillas.
There are only 700 of these apes left in the world
CAT AMONG THE PIGLETS
A tigress plays with piglets in tiger-striped coats at Sriracha zoo in
Thailand in January. The zoo has been accused of using stunts — such as
teaching domestic and wild animals to live together — to attract publicity
The severed arm of the vet Chang Po-yu hangs from the jaws of a crocodile at
Shoushan zoo in Taiwan in April. The grisly incident occurred when Chang
tried to remove a tranquilliser dart from the reptile’s body. His arm was
later reattached
CHEEKY BOY
George Clooney gets to grips with fellow actor Matt Damon at the Amfar world
Aids gala in Cannes in May
GIRLS CORRUPTED
Paris Hilton is taken back to court in handcuffs in June, after serving just
three days of a 45-day sentence for violating a drink-driving ban; Britney
Spears shaves her head at a tattoo parlour in LA in February, after checking
out of rehab; a night's hard partying takes its toll on the actress Lindsay
Lohan in Hollywood in May
WATCH THIS SPACESHIP
With Earth as a backdrop, the Discovery space shuttle approaches the
International Space Station (ISS) in October. This mission marked the first
meeting of two women commanders in space: the Discovery flight commander,
Pamela Melroy, was received at the ISS by Peggy Whitson and her Expedition
16 crew
URBAN BLACK HOLE
In Guatemala City, a giant sinkhole 330ft deep swallows a dozen homes and
kills three in February. Rainstorms and a broken sewage main are blamed
RESCUE MISSION
Peruvian police recover a statue of Christ after an earthquake devastates
parts of the coast south of Lima in August. At least 510 people died in the
quake, measuring 8 on the Richter scale
AN ILL WIND
The aftermath of a tornado that swept through the town of Greensburg, in
southwest Kansas, in May. Most of the town was flattened, nine people were
reported to have died and more than 60 were injured. Thirty tornadoes were
recorded that night, affecting the neighbouring states of Oklahoma and
Colorado, as well as South Dakota
SCORCHED EARTH
A farmer walks across a dried-up pond on the outskirts of Baokang, in the
Hubei province of central China, in June, during a prolonged heat wave
affecting 12 provinces and regions and severely disrupting the lives of more
than 90m people
DANGER ZONE
A helicopter gets close to the action as the volcano Piton de la Fournaise
erupts on the Indian Ocean island of R�union in April
FLAMES OF FURY
A man on the bank of the Los Angeles river watches as wildfires burn in the
hills of LA’s Griffith Park area in May. Three hundred acres went up in
flames and the city’s zoo had to be evacuated
FLOODS OF TEARS
Maria Jeronima Campos cries for help when her son Gabriel falls into a well
flooded by rain in Brazil in January. They were later both rescued after she
jumped in to save him herself
GREEK TRAGEDY
Fires rage so violently across Greece in August — some set by arsonists,
others spreading in the gale-force winds and arid conditions — that they can
be seen from space. By the end of summer, at least 68 had died, mainly in
the ravaged Peloponnese
MOTHER COURAGE
A Palestinian woman, Najat al-Nadi, comforts her 17-year-old son, Raed, after
he is detained in May by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, accused of
possessing pipe bombs and a mortar shell
FIGHTING TALK
Hamas fighters relax in the meeting hall of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
president, after taking control of the presidential compound following
fierce battles in the Gaza Strip in June
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A woman photographs US marines staging a mock assault at the
McDonald’s-sponsored Air & Sea Show in Fort Lauderdale in May. The
event is part of the National Salute to America’s Heroes
SHIELDS OF HONOUR
Female members of the Basij, Iran’s paramilitary force, in combat training in
Tehran in August. The Basij, made up of millions of volunteers, is under the
command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
WAR GAMES
A four-year-old boy cries as he is subjected to a mock execution in Baghdad in
July — a stark reminder that the ongoing violence in Iraq is influencing all
aspects of civilian life
A girl walks along a water pipe in Dharavi, one of the biggest slums in
Mumbai. Home to up to 1m people, the area is unique among slums in that it
sits on prime real estate and is scheduled for extensive redevelopment. The
water in the pipe is headed for the more affluent southern districts of the
Indian city
NO IFS OR MAYBES, JUST BUTTS
Two brothers were impaled simultaneously during the Pamplona bull run in Spain
during July. Lawrence Lenahan, 26, was gored in the buttocks; his brother,
Michael, 23, injured his leg. “I remember looking back and thinking I was in
trouble,” Lawrence recalled, adding: “We will definitely be back”
BY FAIR MEANS OR FOULS
The 2007 Fifa Women’s World Cup, held in China in September, proved every bit
as competitive as the men’s tournament. Despite some wild tackling from the hosts,
Norway carved out a 1-0 victory in the quarterfinals — but lost to Germany,
the eventual winners, in the semifinals
BARE-FACED CHEEK
The Swiss tennis player Emmanuelle Gagliardi makes a lasting impression on the
crowd at Wimbledon in June. Unfortunately few will remember her for her
tennis — she lost in straight sets in the first round to Tatiana Perebiynis,
of Ukraine. But when Gagliardi reached for a new ball she had been keeping
in her knickers, the cameras clicked and tabloid infamy was guaranteed
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
Italy’s Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali take a tumble in January during the
European Figure Skating Championships in Warsaw
THE DOMINO EFFECT
Cyclists are caught in a multiple pile-up during the 11th stage of the Giro
d’Italia race in May. The competition was eventually won by Danilo Di Luca —
from Italy
Bill and Hillary Clinton draw a crowd when they stop for milkshakes at the
Dairy Treat in Nashua, Iowa, on July 4. The senator ordered an extra-thick
raspberry malt and her husband opted for strawberry. A Hillary Clinton
nutcracker, voted one of the most idiotic presents to give someone this
Christmas on the aptly named website www.stupid.com
A WINK TO THE FUTURE
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, winks during a meeting at the G8 summit
in Germany in June. Perhaps he was foreseeing his landslide victory in the
recent elections, which may mean he retains political power, possibly as PM,
after his term ends next May
STATE UNDER FIRE
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, watches a fire burning from
the window of a helicopter during the spate of deadly wildfires that ravaged
the state in October. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee
their homes. At least two of the fires were started intentionally, and the
governor vowed he would “hunt down” the perpetrators
BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH
George W Bush dances with performers from the KanKouran West African Dance
Company in April. The president had been sitting watching the show in the
Rose Garden of the White House during an event for Malaria Awareness Day
when the group of dancers asked him to join them. He looked surprised at
first, but then took to the stage with gay abandon
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Boris Yeltsin’s body lies in state in Moscow in April. People filed past the
former Russian president’s coffin to pay their respects to the man who
played a key role in the reformation of Russia. Yeltsin, whose popularity
declined in his later years owing to problems in the economy and rumours of
heavy drinking, died of heart failure at 76
WHAT IS SHE THINKING?
Nellie, an eight-month-old girl, seems unfazed by the 128 electrodes attached
to her head by scientists monitoring her brain activity. The photograph was
taken in April inside the Babylab at Uppsala University in Sweden. The
centre conducts research into children’s sensory, motor and cognitive
development. With the parents close by, the scientists work to gain a better
understanding of how infants develop their abilities to perceive, act and
reflect on the world around them. One of their objectives is to gain a
better understanding of disorders such as autism
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